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Full Stack Development with JHipster - Second Edition

By : Deepu K Sasidharan, Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
Book Image

Full Stack Development with JHipster - Second Edition

By: Deepu K Sasidharan, Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen

Overview of this book

JHipster is an open source development platform that allows you to easily create web apps and microservices from scratch without spending time on wiring and integrating different technologies. Updated to include JHipster 6, Java 11, Spring Boot 2.1, Vue.js, and Istio, this second edition of Full Stack Development with JHipster will help you build full stack applications and microservices seamlessly. You'll start by understanding JHipster and its associated tools, along with the essentials of full stack development, before building a monolithic web app. You'll then learn the JHipster Domain Language (JDL) with entity modeling using JDL-Studio. With this book, you'll create production-ready web apps using Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Angular, and Bootstrap, and run tests and set up continuous integration pipelines with Jenkins. As you advance, you'll learn how to convert your monoliths to microservices and how to package your application for production with various deployment options, including Heroku and Google Cloud. You'll also learn about Docker and Kubernetes, along with an introduction to the Istio service mesh. Finally, you'll build your client-side with React and Vue.js and discover JHipster's best practices. By the end of the book, you'll be able to leverage the best tools available to build modern web apps.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with the JHipster Platform
4
Section 2: Building and Customizing Web Applications with JHipster
8
Section 3: Continuous Integration and Testing
11
Section 4: Converting Monoliths to Microservice Architecture
15
Section 5: Deployment of Microservices
18
Section 6: React and Vue.js for the Client Side

Entity generation with JHipster

Now it's time to generate the domain model with our JDL. We will use the import-jdl command from JHipster for this.

Open your favorite Terminal application and navigate to the online-store folder where we created the application earlier. Then, execute the import-jdl command:

> cd online-store
> jhipster import-jdl online-store.jdl

This will trigger the entity creation process, and you will be asked to confirm that the system should overwrite existing files with changes. Take a look at the following screenshot:

Enter a to confirm the overwriting of all files with changes. Once the files are generated, JHipster will trigger an npm run webpack:build step to rebuild the client-side code. Once this is done, you will see a success message like the following:

Running git status on the Terminal shows us that five files were modified and a lot...